He also informed that ‘Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary James Mattis would be travelling to India for the dialogue’.

The dialogue was announced last year during the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with President Donald Trumph at the White House. Earlier, India and Japan had similar mechanism between them in the year 2010.

‘Two plus two dialogue’ is the term used for the institutionalisation of a dialogue mechanism between two countries consisting of the key ministries of defence & external affairs.